Jean-Bertrand Feraud

Jean-Bertrand Feraud (3 August 1759-20 May 1795) was a member of the National Convention of the French First Republic, representing the Girondins.

Biography
Jean-Bertrand Feraud was born in Arreau, Hautes-Pyrenees, France on 3 August 1759 to a family of bourgeoisie. He became a member of the Freemasons before rising to the rank of captain in the French National Guard, and he was elected to the National Convention in 1792, protesting the removal of the Girondins from the government. On 6 September 1793, he was sent to the Army of the Rhine as the Committee of Public Safety's commissar, one of many activities that he partook in as a Convention member. He also voted for the execution of King Louis XVI of France and the death penalty for grain hoarders, but he also denounced Jean-Paul Marat's radical publications. In 1794, he sided with the Thermidorians during the Thermidorian Reaction, and the Jacobin Club would target him during their Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III in May 1795. When the sans-culottes stormed the Tuileries Palace, Feraud was struck down by the rebels, and his head was mounted on a pike. Jean Tinelle, the man who carried his head, became the 2,807th and last man to be executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal before it was disbanded.